Andrews County Personal Injury

FM 1788 Head-On Collision in Andrews County, Texas: One Dead After an Unsafe Pass on a Two-Lane Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, the Injured F-150 Driver’s Claim Survives Against the At-Fault Driver’s Estate Under Texas Survival Law — Attorney911 Pursues the Estate, the Cargo Van’s Commercial Owner If Oilfield Fleet Use Is Established, and Ford Motor Company on Vehicle Safety-System Performance, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Minimizes Head-On Injuries and Pressures Quick Settlements Before Symptoms Worsen, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data From Both Vehicles Before the Salvage Yard Overwrites It, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Head-On Crash on FM 1788: What Happened and What It Means for You You were driving north on FM 1788. It was late morning on a Friday — a road you’ve probably driven dozens of times, two lanes cutting through the Permian Basin flatland between Andrews and Midland. Then a cargo van came southbound, pulled left to pass the vehicle in front of it, and crossed directly into your lane. There was nowhere to go. The closing speed between two vehicles on a rural FM road can exceed 120 miles per hour combined. You are now at Midland Memorial Hospital, or you’ve been sent home from there, and the person who hit you did not survive. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating. An insurance adjuster may have already called. And the single question sitting on your kitchen table at 2 a.m. is the one nobody has answered for you: the other driver is dead — does that mean I have no claim? No. It does not. Your claim is alive. The at-fault driver’s death does not extinguish your right to compensation in Texas. The liability that driver created by crossing into your lane survives — it passes…

Fatal Hit-and-Run on FM 1788: 20-Year-Old Motorcyclist Ricky Scott Riojas Killed When a Truck-and-Trailer Driver Turned Left Into His Path and Fled the Scene in Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Unidentified Operator, the Carrier or Owner Behind That Truck, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hit-and-Run Wrongful-Death Cases, We Move to Preserve Trailer Debris, Motorcycle EDR Data and Oilfield Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases It, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with Exemplary Damages for Fleeing a Fatal Scene, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal FM 1788 Hit-and-Run: A 20-Year-Old Is Dead, the Driver Is Gone, and the Evidence Is Disappearing If you found this page, you are probably living inside the worst week of your life. Someone you love — a son, a brother, a friend — left on a motorcycle and did not come back. The person who took him from you did not stop. Did not call for help. Did not turn around. Just drove away into the dark and left a 20-year-old on a rural road in Andrews County, Texas, before the sun came up. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened on FM 1788 on August 7, 2025 — what the law gives your family, what evidence is already vanishing, and what we would do if you called us today. This is not a sales pitch. It is a roadmap, written by trial lawyers who have spent decades in courtrooms, for the family of someone killed in a hit-and-run that the driver thought he could walk away from. What we know from the preliminary investigation is this: at approximately 5:40 a.m. on Thursday, August 7, a 2014 Harley-Davidson Street Glide was traveling southbound on…

SH 176 Tire Blowout Fatal Crash in Andrews County, Texas: Jason Carreon, 28, of Odessa Killed When a Front-Left Tire Failure Sent His Ford F-350 Into Oncoming Traffic — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death Claims, We Pursue the Tire Manufacturer and Distribution Chain Behind Steering-Axle Blowouts Under NHTSA Tire-Defect Authority, We Secure the Failed Tire and EDR Black-Box Data Before the Vehicle Goes to Salvage, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the Sudden-Emergency Doctrine That Defeats Comparative-Fault Defenses When a Blowout Forces a Vehicle Across the Center Line, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Tire Blew on SH 176 — and a 28-Year-Old Man From Odessa Is Dead If you are reading this, someone you love may have just died on a two-lane highway in the Permian Basin, and the first thing you heard was that their truck “crossed into oncoming traffic.” That phrase — repeated by the news, the trooper’s初步 report, and soon the insurance adjuster — makes it sound like a driver-error case. It is not. A 2021 Ford F-350 does not swerve into the wrong lane on a straight rural highway at 5 o’clock on a Friday evening for no reason. The front left tire blew out. The truck yawed. A young man who left Odessa that afternoon never came home. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle tire-blowout wrongful death cases in Texas. This page is not a sales pitch. It is the education we wish every family had in the first 72 hours after a crash like this — because the evidence that proves who is responsible is being destroyed right now, on a clock the law designed, and the insurance company is counting on you not knowing that. What happened on State Highway 176…

Fiery Rollover on CR 2001 in Andrews County, Texas: Paola Salazar, 40, Killed When a Dodge Charger Strikes a Boulder, Rolls and Burns — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Texas Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and Examine Whether the Fuel System Failed in a Foreseeable Rollover Under FMVSS 301, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Burned Hull and Image the EDR Black-Box Data Before the Impound Lot Crushes It Within 30 to 60 Days, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Law Including Pre-Death Consciousness and Comparative Fault, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Fire After the Rollover: What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone — or someone you love is in a hospital bed in Lubbock right now, and you are sitting in a kitchen in Andrews at two in the morning trying to understand what happened on that county road. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already said what happened on the surface: a Dodge Charger was traveling too fast, the driver lost the curve, the car hit a boulder, it rolled over, and it caught fire. A 40-year-old passenger from Andrews was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock with serious injuries, more than a hundred miles from where the crash happened. Here is what the news did not tell you, and what the investigating officers are not going to tell you: the fire is the question that changes everything. A car that rolls over and hits a boulder is a crash. A car that rolls over, hits a boulder, and then burns is two events — the crash and the fire — and the law treats them separately. If the…

Fatal Dodge Charger Rollover Fire on Northwest County Road, Andrews County, Texas: Passenger Paola Salazar Killed When a Speeding Charger Left the Roadway, Struck a Boulder and Burned — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Manufacturer Stellantis on the Charger’s Fuel-System Integrity Under FMVSS 301, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Lock Down the Vehicle With 72-Hour Spoliation Letters Before the Salvage Yard Scraps It, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Stowers Doctrine Exposing the Insurer Beyond Policy Limits, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews County Fatal Crash: What Happened on Northwest County Road — and What the Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Dodge Charger on Northwest County Road on the morning of March 23, 2026 — we are talking directly to you. You may be sitting at a kitchen table in Andrews, or in a waiting room at University Medical Center in Lubbock, or on the phone with a funeral home, trying to understand how a Sunday morning drive ended in a fire and a death. You are in the worst hours of your life, and the people who will soon try to limit what your family can recover are already moving. The driver’s insurance company has already opened a file. The vehicle is sitting in an impound yard, and every day it sits there, the proof of what happened to Paola Salazar is decaying — or being prepared for the salvage crusher. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer…

Fiery Head-On Collision & Mass Wrongful Death on a Rural West Texas Highway: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Head-On Collision and Wrongful-Death Litigation, Nine Killed When an Impaired Driver Crossed the Centerline on FM 1788 in Andrews County, Texas — We Pursue Stellantis on Pickup Crashworthiness and Fuel-System Fire-Origin Theories, We Investigate the Institution That Loaded Nine Into a Transit Van, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Victim Cases, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Preserve the Fire Evidence Before the Vehicles Are Scrapped, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine and the Gross-Negligence Standard for Impaired-Driving Exemplary Damages, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on FM 1788: Nine Lives Lost in a Fiery Head-On Collision If you are reading this because someone you love was in that van — a son or daughter on the golf team, a coach you trusted, a friend who was supposed to come home from a tournament — we are not going to begin with the legal analysis. We are going to begin with what we know happened, because you deserve to hear it stated plainly, by someone who has spent a career sitting across kitchen tables from families who lost everything in a single moment on a West Texas highway. On March 15, 2022, a Dodge pickup truck crossed the centerline on Farm-to-Market Road 1788 in Andrews County, Texas, and collided head-on with a Ford Transit van carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf team. The team was returning home to Hobbs, New Mexico, from a tournament at Midland College. Both vehicles burst into flames. Nine people died — six student-athletes, the coach who was driving the van, the pickup’s driver, and his 13-year-old son who was riding as a passenger. Two students survived with serious injuries. The road, the fire, the speed, the…

Patricia Busso, 52, Killed in FM 1788 Rollover Crash in Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Wrongful Death Attorneys Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Commercial Operator, and the Manufacturer Behind Rollover Roof Crush When a Heavy-Duty Chassis Cab Like the Ram 5500 Crosses the FMCSA 10,001-Pound Commercial Threshold in the Permian Basin, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Cell Records Before the Overwrite, Under Texas Wrongful Death Law Surviving Families May Pursue Uncapped Damages, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews County FM 1788 Rollover Crash — Wrongful Death Rights for Surviving Families If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on FM 1788, you already know the hardest part. The road that runs through your part of the Permian Basin took someone who was just driving — a 52-year-old woman from Andrews, heading south on a Thursday morning, who never made it home. What follows is about what Texas law allows a surviving family to do about that, how fast the proof of what happened is disappearing, and why the distance between accountability and silence is measured in days, not years. Here is what the public record shows. A northbound 2024 Ram 5500 turned left across the southbound lanes of FM 1788 and collided with a 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Jeep rolled over. Its driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The Texas Department of Public Safety has preliminarily determined that the driver of the Ram failed to yield the right of way. The investigation is ongoing. The Ram being driving by [the at-fault driver] failed to yield the right of way, turning left and hit the Jeep… causing it to rollover. — Texas Department…

FM 1788 Fatal Head-On Collision in Andrews County, Texas — Adriel Eli Spencer, 22, of Midland Killed When a Ford Cargo Van Crossed Into Oncoming Traffic at Highway Closing Speeds on a Two-Lane Farm-to-Market Road: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to West Texas Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Van Driver and the Commercial Operator Behind the Unsafe Pass, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Subpoena Cell-Phone Records to Prove Distracted Passing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Rule in Plain Terms, the Seat-Belt Non-Use Issue Texas Law Generally Does Not Permit to Reduce a Family’s Recovery, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A 22-Year-Old Man Is Gone Because Someone Crossed the Center Line on FM 1788 — What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now You are reading this because someone you love is not coming home. A 22-year-old man from Midland was driving north on Farm-to-Market Road 1788 in Andrews County on a Friday morning in late June 2026, and a cargo van coming the other direction pulled out to pass — into his lane, into his path, into the last seconds of his life. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already said, in its preliminary findings, that the van’s driver attempted to pass another southbound vehicle on the left “when it was unsafe to do so.” That is not a euphemism. That is a description of a man who drove his vehicle into oncoming traffic and killed someone. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happens next — what the law allows, what the insurance company is already doing, what evidence is disappearing while you read this, and what the single most important question in this case turns out to be. None of it is guesswork. All of it is what we have spent decades…